Monday, June 28, 2010

From John MacArthur Jr.:
"I want to talk to you a little bit, kind of like a family talk. This is not really a sermon, I wouldn't call it a sermon because I'm not even sure what I'm going to say myself. So I have a lot more things to say than I will have time to say and I don't want to drag it out, but I want to try to help you have a bit of a biblical perspective on the situation as we face it in our world and in our country today. I want to talk about biblical economics. Everybody is highly aware of the mega-shift in economics, mega-shift in finance. We're all very much aware of rising unemployment, people losing their jobs. Very much aware of the fact that taxes keep going up, that the government is passing more and more bills, more and more legislation that is essentially going to reallocate wealth from people who have it ostensibly to the people who don't have it, shifting economic situations are well, well known to all of us.

My intention is not to talk about the politics of any of that. My intention is simply to talk about how we respond biblically to what is going on. A few things to say at the very beginning. Whatever happens economically in the United States has no direct effect on the church...it has no direct effect on the church. The church exists as a completely independent organism. The Kingdom of Christ has no connection to the kingdoms of this world. It doesn't matter whether you're in a capitalistic culture or an absolutely communistic culture. It doesn't matter whether you're in a monarchy or whether you're in anarchy. What happens in the world, what happens politically, what happens economically in the world neither retards or expedites the development of the church. The Kingdom of God works by power that is transcendent to the world. It operates under the divine purpose and the divine hand and is not subject to the whimsies and the shifting changes in human cultures from nation to nation which exists, that form of government, that form of economics, that social structure has no direct impact on the church".

1 comment:

greco
said...

government polices affects the church. in a secular nation, it doesnt respect the separation of governments. an over bearing civil government will affect people and even the church through policies and taxes. it takes money, property from them and uses it for themselves.

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